Word: curbings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walking along Quincy St. with one foot in the gutter and one on the curb stone. His hat was gray and somewhat battered. His coat was hanging loose and unbuttoned. He seemed to count his steps as he climbed and sank at each irregular stride...
Last week the following were news: C. Succeeding E. Burd Grubb, who lately moved over to the Big Board as a partner in Coggeshall & Hicks, Fred C Moffatt, senior member of Moffatt & Spear, was elected president of the New York Curb Exchange, No. 2 U. S. securities market. Son of a minor Erie R. R. official who died when his son was 15, President Moffatt got his start as a Postal Telegraph messenger boy in Scranton, Pa. He bought his Curb seat in 1923, two years after that boisterous outdoor market sought the dignity and protection of a roof...
Young, wiry Mr. Grubb, who is the nephew of Yachtsman Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, is being boomed for president of the New York Stock Exchange. At a big testimonial banquet for the most popular Curb president in years, Richard Whitney, noting such reports about his possible successor, generously declared: "I sincerely hope that is right and E. Burd Grubb will be a president of the New York Stock Exchange-and soon...
When a Democratic Administration needed billions to fight the War, Congress judicially inserted in the Second Liberty Bond Act a top limit to the U. S. debt. That figure-$48,000,000,000-was never approached. To a municipality a debt limit is an effective curb because it is usually fixed by State statute which invalidates securities issued in excess of the authorization. A Federal debt limit, however, is utterly without significance, for it may be changed by Congress at will. And sure enough, fortnight ago, Congress solemnly cut the debt limit from...
...plenty to do. The four or five who mill around the New York Stock Exchange floor could never transact all their customers' business on a busy day. Four more are locked in a cashier's cage all day signing checks and certificates. Others buy and sell commodities. Curb shares. Those who do not have offices congregate in a great partners' room filled with rolltop desks. But even the oldest employe cannot remember all the partners meeting at once...